Recap / Community S1 E22: The Art of Discourse

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While hanging out in the cafeteria Jeff and Britta become targets of ridicule for a trio of elitist high school students attending Greendale for early college credit. They try to get revenge but find the results are less than satisfying. Meanwhile the study group is torn apart when Pierce goes too far and humiliates Shirley and fails to apologize, resulting in an ultimatum. On the lighter side, Abed has a Quintessential College Experience List and Troy is helping him complete it.

The Friend Nobody Likes: Pierce is kicked out and brought back for this reason; y having someone around that they all hate, the group is able to get along better.

Funny Background Event: After Pierce refuses to apologise to Shirley, she goes back into the woman's bathroom and Annie goes with her, while Britta looks at Pierce disapprovingly. Abed tries to follow, only for Troy to pull him back just in time.

Gilligan Cut: Pierce proclaims to Shirley that she just dug her own grave. Cut to ... Pierce being expelled from the group.

Goofy Print Underwear: After pantsing Troy, Abed comments that it'd be funnier if this trope was enacted, only for it to be invoked when Troy does the same thing to him & Abed reveals he was wearing them specifically for this reason.

Abed: Boob-a-tron's great. And once someone spills bongwater on his circuitry and he comes to life, he's gonna make us the coolest guys on campus and help us get babes.

Irony: It's implied that Mark, the leader of the high schoolers, will meet the same fate as Jeff. His medical license will be revoked and he will disappear possibly to a community college to earn an actual medical degree.

Not So Above It All: Shirley advocates that Pierce's racism is one of the reasons that he should be kicked out of the group. But as Annie later points out, she's the most bigoted out of all of them after Pierce.

Jeff tries to tell Britta that she shouldn't be concerned about some asshole teenagers asking them what mistakes they made to end up where they are in life, but interrupts himself by blowing up at Pierce and asking him what mistakes he made to end up where he is in life.

Pierce & Shirley realize this is the case with the two of them, as they share most of the same complaints about the rest of the Study Group leaving them out of things. It's this realization that prompts her to forgive him for the pantsing incident.

Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Troy and Abed are discussingPorn Names when porn-esque bass music starts playing and a studly pizza delivery guy enters asking in a suggestive manner who ordered the pizza with "extra sausage" he has. After Troy and Abed flee the room, the music stops and the camera cuts to Leonard with a bass saying he ordered the pizza.

Take That!: Abed explains how the absence of Pierce has left the status of group Butt-Monkey up for grabs:

Teens Are Monsters: The highschool students attending campus for a program to earn college credits won't stop MERCILESSLY hounding the cast for going to a community college, when they'll be one day going to universities. Strangely Up to 11 - many fans felt they were too cruel or just too annoying to be funny.

Mark's mom taught him to be cruel.

Totally Radical: "Pwn" had pretty much run its course by 2008. The teenagers were infuriating enough without using that word with one of the kids' mothers.

Unusual Euphemism: The utterly impenetrable obscurity of "schmitty!" just makes it all the more infuriating.

Volleying Insults: Jeff and Britta attempt to make clever comebacks towards the teenagers, only to realize that the teenagers will simply repeat anything they say in a mocking tone. Later, the study group members sink to their level, and eventually the members of the two groups just end up incessantly saying "duh" back and forth to each other.

We Want Our Jerk Back: After Pierce gets kicked out of the group for pantsing Shirley, they quickly realize that they need him back, because his vital role as the biggest Jerkass there allows the rest of them to get along better with each other by diverting all their vitriol toward him.

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